Continue to protect the cost of education at McNeese; provide affordable education for our community

Continued charity work/sponsorship

Cut backs

Cuts to library resources on a state level

Cutting down the trees on neighboring streets

Cutting programs

Decline in enrollment

Declining enrollment

Declining enrollment

Declining enrollment

Declining job market for graduates

Declining number of high school graduates

Declining salaries as they impact quality of teaching and attracting good teachers

Decrease in enrollment due to ACT scores and tuition fees.

Decreasing donations-declining economic situation, etc.

Demographics; everything feeds into Lafayette; no growth coming into SWLA; take advantage of our location in b/t Shreveport, Houston, etc.

Develop a risk-assessment committee to audit possible disasters or emergencies

Distance learning

Diverting state funding to other campuses

Doing away with the consortium, e.g. nursing

Don't get lost in the online education being offered; keep up or stay ahead of online education

Don't get to the point where we have large online classes

Don't lose the computer science degree

Don't lose too many programs to Sowela

Don't overextend financially

Don't try to do everything

Don't try to do everything

Donors and alumni dues

Dorm cost for athletes

Economic stability; financial security

Emphasizing distance-learning too much

Employee complacency due to no merit increases

Encroachment by Northern and Central Louisiana Universities

Enrollment decline

Erosion of programs

Even less prepared students

Even though times are lean, don't get complacent; can't afford to get complacent

Expansion of distance ed programs to the W, N, and East of us.

Faculty furloughs

Faculty safety and disciplinary support-respect

Falling behind in technology and the use of technology

Falling behind on online learning

Fear of consolidation with ULL, for example

Fear to be different

Fees for camps

Financial cutbacks

Financial instability of the state

Financial loss because we are not independent of state

Funding

Further budget cuts

Further budget reductions

Further loss of degree programs

Further reduction in staff and faculty

Geographic consolidation with other universities

Getting absorbed by LSU system

Grade inflation

Growth at Sowela

Guard against bad press in the community

Guard against going "overboard" with online courses. Face-to-face has an important role

High moral standards for staff/faculty

Higher education funding is not protected; always get the axe to balance the budget

Hiring too many of our own graduates to work here

Homogenization (with other smaller universities)

Homogenization with other smaller universities

Hurricane preparedness

Hurricanes

Hurricanes

I believe any attempt to limit or cut majors and/or minors in various departments would be a mistake. I know the quality of the music department firsthand from attending concerts and from interaction with department heads and instructors. I have also read of honors and accreditation that other departments have received.

I think we need to look at issues of quality control. As we move to hybrid and web courses we need to ensure that students are getting the same high quality of instruction. Furthermore, with the 40 students in web courses policy (even in hybrid) you are seriously overworking the web professor and either convincing them to NOT do web courses or to have to reduce the number of written assignments in order to grade everything for the double sized class. It is a policy that needs to be rethought. I think that courses that have more objective measures (test based courses) could have more students, but subjectively graded materials are very work intensive and doubling the size of a course that has over 15 written/project assignments is NOT a policy that will keep the quality where it needs to be.

Incentivize whistle-blowing

Increased bureaucracy (excessive business meetings, forms, surveys)

Increases in the student -faculty ratio (i.e. reduction of faculty with increased students)

Industry relies heavily on McNeese for quality graduates for employees. Maintaining and improve on those relationships is essential to the future success of McNeese

Ineffective instructors

Influx of outside universities

Instill pride in students

Its identity as the Cowboys. That big M with the cowboy riding the horse needs to belong to us, not some Yankee college. They might try to take it from us.

Junior College growth-competition

Keep graduate programs going for all disciplines

Keep high school graduates informed of increased requirements for college entrance

Keep programs, beat the duplication argument

Keep state accreditation in all curriculums, local organizations, afficiliations, national chapters

Keeping state accreditation in all curriculums

Lack of hands on experience

Lamar and Sowela; Poor salary leads to increased turnover so an increase in turnover.

Lamar becoming more nationally recognized

Lamar State College

Lamar University's and NSULA's alternative PROGRAM offerings. Right now, we can't compete. Offering hundreds of alternatively-delivered courses is futile without programs.

Lamar's football team

Landlocked; we have watched a lot of property surrounding us be purchased and developed by others

Layoffs which could reduce quality of education

Legislature decisions and state level decisions affecting us

Legislature, legislative negative impact to higher ed

Limit number of foreign students

Losing common sense

Losing contact with state and regional needs

Losing faculty members due to low salaries, no raises or incentives, no budgets for equipment needs/technological advances.

Losing focus of main goals

Losing good professors.

Losing international students due to fewer scholarships and other financial assistance

Losing local students

Losing more programs. This means fewer options for students.

Losing our good faculty

Losing our masters program to DNP programs

Losing qualified instructors

Losing quality of service and fiscal responsibility due to increase of online course availability and all the other things that come with it (issuing financial aid for those courses) without an increase in employees and technology to ensure complicance with all state and federal regulations.

Losing so many programs that when we emerge we're not recognizable as a university

Losing students

Losing students to other universities

Losing the "personal touch" with increased emphasis in online coursework

Perception of McNeese being less than LSU or ULL in the eyes of potential students

Personnel cutbacks

Pressure to reduce faculty for budget considerations

Pricing beyond the means of lower/middle income families - an educational elitism that does not serve the community

Program cuts

Program elimination

Program loss

Protect against increasing class sizes

Protect engineering program

Protect our territory for early admissions

Protect whatever it is that brings foreign students to our campus

Protecting university jobs

Purchase the old Charles Cinema property

Racial indifference or violence on campus, although I know of no risky students.

Racism

Raise in tuition

Raising tuition

Raising tuition

Raising tuition

Rapidly escalating cost of attendance

Recalciatrance for change

Recruit more out-of-state students from Texas; reciprocal agreements

Recruitment from other universities into our area

Reducing standards to maintain retention

Reduction in programs

Reduction of programs and disciplines

Relationship with local business

Retention

Retention, Budget

Rising fixed costs (long term costs)

Sacrificing quality for growth

Sacrificing quality for quantity

Safety

Safety issues

Safety issues

Seeking only qualified teachers

Service learning

Shutting down engineering and chemistry

Some of the people associated with one of the other universities in the UL system project the view that their university is THE University of LA. McNeese, in association with the other UL universities, should be very wary of these views. Public perception is very important not only to enrollment, but, also to funding from the state. There will be an increased pressure from the aforementioned university to position itself in a place of increased importance. It is NOT more important simply because it has a larger enrollment. Another huge threat is the lack of consistent funding for the State of LA. McNeese has done an excellent job of budgeting, but, I think the task will become more difficult.

Souring attitude of all personnel.

Sowela

Sowela

Sowela and McNeese need to complement each other not compete

Sowela could be both a threat and an opportunity. We should develop a strong partnership while publicizing the features that distinguish McNeese.

State politics

Strained relations between administration and college of business

Student population

Student safety

Students on campus, more security

Suicidal students

Swallowed by LSU (or anybody else)

Teacher-student ratio

Terrorism

Terrorism--sports events

The damage the police department does in alienating students.

The influx of online programs and alternative teacher education programs offered by private providers and providers outside the state

The move of state government and Board of Regetns to diminish the role of regional universities

The number of high school graduates

The pedestrian-auto accident rate on Ryan Street and surrounding areas.

The reach of other universities through online education

The state government's budget cuts and the focus on Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

The talk of too many Universities in the state. McNeese is a vital part of LC that should remain.

The threat of being mediocre. Just out there. Help students graduate & find jobs - that's McNeese's best advertising.

The Threat of possible losing the Mass Comm Department.

The threat of students dropping out

The threat would be that McNeese would suddenly grow cold and listless and get tired of helping students in a friendly way! As I have constantly stated, I think that it is important. I treat our faculty this way, other administrators this way, as well as our students!

Threat to employees because of no raises

To the best of their ability, protecting against budget cuts and increasing tuition would be great.

Too high of a student/teacher ratio

Too many unexpected power outages

Too much emphasis on ACT scores

Too much technology

Trying to be everything to everyone

Trying to be like the "Big Boys". We're not LSU, LATech, or even ULL. Research is not and should not be our focus. We're not sized to handle huge enrollments. Our student "quality distribution" is not the same as the bigger schools. Most of our students cannot handle the relatively uncaring sink-or-swim attitude of the larger schools. Our students require more time, effort, and personal touch to develop them into the same caliber of graduates that the other schools produce. Desperate grasping toward unrestricted (and sometimes poorly considered) growth will only hurt us in the end... Unless, of course, we want to change the very nature of McNeese.

Trying to do too much

Tuition increases

Turf battles with other Universities in our area

Two-year technology program

ULL and Lamar seem to be growing while McNeese has been stagnant for over 25 years

Unbridled growth--adding students to existing classes without expanding staff-facilities

Underexposure

Use library assessment money as enhancement money, not replacement money

We do not need to waste too much money (e.g. eliminating blackboard is good ) So more care with expenses will help us out a lot!

We want to grow but financial constraints limit us

Weakening graduate programs that online universities take over

Weakening of our strong programs

What could McNeese do to improve student learning?

1) Hire native English speaking teaching staff that students can understand. 2) Utilize funding to improve labs, process simulators, etc. to reflect what is currently being used in industry. 3) Expand the campus and build new facilities for labs, teaching, housing, etc.

1. Investment in new technology. 2. Teach more classes more often. 3. Ensure faculty qualtity. The university may not be able to do much to improve student learning, but they can work harder to attract students who are more serious about learning.

A dedicated, regular source of scholarships to help students finance study abroad, internships or other opportunities.

Ability to visit classrooms without it being threatening; peer review of teaching by opposite disciplines

Access to technology

Accountability (faculty)

Accountability in class and class attendance

Add internships in degree area

Add more early classes

Additional internships

Admissions criteria needs to be studied

Adopt a fall break (applause)

Adopting new instructional techniques such as clickers and concept maps

Advising correctly

Advising improvement

Advisor's training

All faculty in all departments need to attend seminars on how to teach and write good test questions. I don't doubt that most faculty are extremely knowledgeable in their field, but this does not always make them a good teacher. All faculty must be able to speak English at a high level so students can understand them. Embrace technology and incorporate it into all classes, not just the use of Blackboard but other emerging technologies.

Allow new grades to hide old ones instead of averaging

Allow or encourage small classes

Also ask people who graduated 10, 20, 30 years ago

Alumni hiring McNeese graduates when they have the chance

Alumni mentoring

And that wonderful personal touch. Teach students HOW to think not WHAT to think.

Anything to enhance distance learning to expand student pool

Ask a student

Ask a student why they are leaving or dropping courses

Availability of classes

Availability of coaching from day one for any course

Basic study skills for entering students

Be more creative in how we teach

Be proactive, provide voluntary study sessions to students

Be willing to let students fail

Beef up counseling services for students (student's overloaded with other stressors)

Better academic advising

Better advising

Better advising

Better communication between departments

Better communication from Faculty and more involvement from faculty outside of the classroom

Better communication from teachers

Better coordinated tutoring

Better curriculum design-vertical alignment so that what you learn in one classes helps as you progress

Better equipment in mass comm dept

Better faculty advising

Better teaching strategies and methods

Better technology

Better tutoring

Better tutoring, more teachers

Better understanding of what you do when you "punch the clock

Bring in community and business leaders to do workshops

Bring in great speakers for students and community

Bring more research to the campus - prestige

Broaden curriculum

Broader guest lecture program

Buckle down and apply the resources and support to allow the faculty to do their jobs to the best of their abilities, NOT in the most efficient manner in order to be able to increase enrollment and, thus, revenue.

Don't give so many exceptions to entrance requirement and entrance dates

Don't use mymathlab for Math 113

Earlier identification of at-risk students

Educate students about the difference between high school and college

Educational information shared about the Millennial generation

Educational link with the school system to alleviate the students having to take remedial classes

Elevate ACT requirements

Eliminate Facebook

Emphases on big picture approach in some courses.

Emphasize improving the quality of the library

Emphasize the importance of writing assignments

Encourage College of Business to create programs that prepare students for the common sense rigors of capitalism

Encourage forming "communities of learning" within colleges

Encourage innovative teaching

Encourage more in-class presentations

Encourage open dialogue with employers

Ending a culture of passive engagement among students

Enforce attendance

Enforce attendance policies in the interest of retention

Engage academic advisors with students

Engage students at every opportunity

Ensure all teachers' accents can be understood

Ensure student safety

Ensure that all teachers can clearly speak English

Ensure that our tutoring center stays open

Entrepreneurship courses

Establish a co-op program in business and engineering.

Evaluation of faculty-advisor process

Everything on laptops (including textbooks, yearbooks)

Expect more from the students

Facilitate more experiential learning - more hands-on

Facilities

Faculty actually embrace personal touch for students

Faculty awareness of what the curriculum is in the schools and building on that when the students get to campus here (understanding of Core hs curriculum).

Faculty maintaining office hours

Faculty reassigned time to tutoring facilities

Faculty understanding of digital learners

Fertile ground offshore; get remote classes offshore for those working 12/on, 12/off

Focus more on quality of content vs. quantity

Form a university-wide policy on distractions in class, such as cell phone use and texting

Get rid of 8 a.m. classes

Get students involved in campus activities

Get the students to attend class

Give 24-hour student access to technology rooms with card entry

Give laptops to incoming freshman

Give warm fuzzies

Global thinking

Go to high schools and tell them what we require of their students

Good teachers

Hands on learning

Hands on learning

Hands-on experience

Happy employees and teachers make happier students

Have a better equipped computer lab. Printer is antique, I am told.

Have a college skills course in the summer before students start classes

Have a true learning center to help students

Have enough faculty to teach classes

Help and incentives for students

Help fight against course shopping

Helping Jrs and Srs -high school-by finding out what they really want to study (whether they come here or not)

Higher degree of teachers

Higher Education needs to assist the school board in closing the gap so that students entering MSU will be prepared for their entry-level math classes. Math is just one example. This applies to all subjects.

Higher entrance standards

Highlight career center

Hire more PhD's. Give faculty a reason to come and stay. Students can benefit from having more computer labs and an expanded library system to help them in conducting research. Equipment needs are essential to being able to keep up with advancements in the digital age.

Hire quality teachers

Hold student responsible for their learning

I am happy with how McNeese conducts its academic business.

Identify professors-instructors who lack commitment and hold them accountable, e.g. connect to pay.

Imitate and replicate athletics student support services campus wide

Improve class attendance

Improve faculty and student relations

Improve faculty-student respect

Improve FFND; Pay the instructors of FFND better

Improve interviewing skills

Improve retention rate for freshman

Improve study skills for students (orientation)

Improve teaching-learning practices and consider the establishment of a faculty excellence center

Improve technology in the classrooms

Improve technology that teachers need to improve classroom learning

Improve technology, Improve facilities

Improve the library

Improve the website

Improve the website

Improved teaching, advising, academic coaching, and require English speaking competence of all faculty.

Improving faculty-student ratio

In relation to athletes, class scheduling flexibility; offering of classes may limit when students may take them

Include artists-in-residence

Include note taking as part of Freshman Foundations

Incorporate more technology into classroom. Reduce students absences and post study techniques on the main website for students. Many students do not know what it takes to do well in colleges classes. They believe that whatever they did in high school is enough, but it is not. Coming to class and completing homework is not going to cut it. That is just the bare minimum, and most students think this is all that is needed to getting good grades and when it does not work they become frustrated and quit. (retention)

Increase student research (undergrad) opportunities

Increase support services such as tutoring, etc, and collaborations in those areas, early alert, intrusive advising-increase these

Increase the number of hours dedicated to Freshman Foundations course

Increase the quality of the faculty. Recruiting and retaining excellent faculty should be just as important as recruiting and retaining students.

Increase web-based classes

Increased building maintenance

Increased library hours on nights and weekends

Increased reading

Increased technology

Inexpensive daycare

Infuse a global awareness among students so they think beyond the five-parish region

Innovation learning-continue down this path

Innovation program

Internships

Internships

Internships

Internships

Internships in all degree programs

Internships wherever possible

Invest in new technologies that enhance our programs

Invite alumni as guest speakers to students

Invite alumni into classes to give students a real-life experience

Invite former McNeese students who are working in the real world to share experience with classes.

Invite Parker Palmer to speak to faculty about alternative methods of teaching

Look at current resources and make changes according to student needs; students have requested changes to the writing center

Maintain low student-faculty ratio

Make student take notes during lectures

Make sure equipment purchased has the right instructor to operate the equipment

Make them apply what is taught. Teach them to learn. Don't let them forget subject matter. Use what is taught every day all through the semester. Teach them to fish and never give them a fish. In other words, teach them to learn how to learn.

Masters programs expanded

McNeese should continue to hire the professors to fit the student body. More technology.

McNeese should try to incorporate more real life experiences for specified degrees.

Mentoring

Mentoring

Mentoring programs

Mentorship

Monitor employee and student engagement scores/data

More accessible classes; classes offered when students need them; especially during senior year

More classes at more times

More classes at more times

More classes at more times

More Engineering instructors

More extensive mentoring for students

More faculty involvement in student learning

More faculty-student collaboration

More focused general education

More guidance to help students to keep their TOPS scholarships

More hands-on activities; mentorships, internships

More hands-on learning (research-based)

More hands-on opportunities for students to engage in

More hands-on or service learning curriculum

More hands-on stuff in all areas

More intensive supervision in their field-practice site (albeit engineering, science, education)

More interaction between advisors and students; more assistance to freshman (from upperclassmen) with scheduling-advising

More interactive classrooms (student involvement in the learning process)

More interactive classrooms and student involvement in the learning process

More internet instruction--post lectures on youtube

More office hours

More online classes

More online classes, more classes

More online courses

More online courses for masters program--online masters programs in education

More online learning

More practical learning in the REAL world environment - expand internships and research programs at McNeese to get our young adults involved

More problem labs

More professors, more equipment avaliable to students, working printers,

More Socratic method in teaching-encourage involvement and interaction among students

More student support services

More teachers to reduce class sizes

More technology resources

More Technology.

More tutoring

More tutoring opportunities

More web-based classes

Motivational talks on personal responsibility needed rather than Freshman Foundations

Move the withdrawal date up

My student days are long past so I wouldn't know

Need for mentoring young students (k-12)

No labs

Not all areas of campus are collegial like Nursing seems to be

Not sure. I do not have any children currently enrolled.

Offer 24-hour study space

Offer classes at more times

Offer discounted rates for alums working towards masters

Offer experiential learning courses, not just classroom instruction

Offer more campus jobs so students won't seek work off-campus

Offer more classes for programs where they aren't offered enough or timely

Offer more classes online. Also intersession classes.

Offer more classes, have much better teachers, espically ones that the students can understand and offer more of the classes at one time

Offer more courses for the non-traditional student at times other than 8-5, night, weekends would be good

Offer more online courses for the students who must work during the traditional course hours.

Offer workshops or one-shot classes for students (like Leisure Learning) on emerging technologies; Undergraduate research symposium with small cash awards, or some sort of award; Tracking (basic, intermediate, advanced) for core curriculum classes

Online and computer based classes

Online courses and real-world, practical application courses

Online enhancement courses

Online learning

Online learning for certain courses

Opportunities for students-community service projects and leadership training

Organized courses

Orientation for everybody not just FTF

Other methods of learning, other than lecture, hands on

Other methods of teaching besides just lecture

Outreach courses to high schools so they have more knowledge coming in

Parking more accessible

Place the reward structure on student learning outcomes for developing faculty

Poor attendance policies

Practical instructors

Produce capable, in-demand students

Produce students that are in demand by employers; make a degree their calling card to get into the door

Professional development for teaching

Professional tutors in the tutoring center

Professors' language barriers

Program accreditations

Progress tracking

Promote organizations that are part of national orgs. for students (AMA, Debate, etc.)

Promote student organizations and interaction with each other

Provide faculty training to be more effective as teachers

Provide funding opportunity for peer led mentoring instruction

Provide funds for the newest equipment and learning materials

Provide good equipment in Nursing-Mass Comm building

Provide hands on experience in field of study.

Provide lessons to all of the professors on how to teach the students better. There is a dire need for a tutoring center with the Business Department. Improvement with tutoring in the Learning Center-more tutors and located in a bigger facility. Create assignments and projects where the student can focus on his or her desired career. Only hire foreign professors with very clear accents or make those professors take classes on how to improve their accents. Create a mentoring program for each major where freshmen/sophomores in that particular major are mentored by seniors of the same major. Increased recognition on campus in the building of graduates-for example, the engineering dept has profile pics hanging on walls in Drew Hall of recent graduates. Create classrooms that are easier to use for laptops-more electrical outlets. More involvement with Career Services.

Provide more opportunities for students to use their major at McNeese.

Provide opportunities for faculty to learn how to improve their teaching, and then hold them accountable.

Recruit and retain competent faculty and make them feel as valuable as the coaching staff

Recruit non-McNeese people for faculty positions

Recruit non-McNeese people for faculty positions

Recruitment--send faculty to outlying areas to teach

Reduce class size

Reduce faculty paperwork load

Reduce number of composition courses taught by graduate students

Reevaluate the effectiveness of Freshman Foundations

Re-evaluating 40 student/course based on what is actually taught in the course. Also, we need discussions about articulation within our degree plans. We rarely have time to discuss articulation and we need to do that.

Reliable internet service on campus

Remain current with innovative techniques

Require all students to take a course in critical thinking

Require convocation-students to attend a certain number of events annually

Require economics for all degrees

Require freshman and sophomores to do volunteer in the different curriculums that McNeese offers

Require hands-on learning experiences in all UG-GR programs (internship, coops, service learning) as a condition of degree completion

Require student attendance

Require students to take advantage of office hours

Required ethics course

Research

Restructure FFND

Retain quality faculty and not keep faculty who no longer have a passion for teaching

Review all registration deadlines

Review Freshman foundations, note-taking strategies, reading

Rigorous evaluation and recruitment of the best instructors

Scholarships

Semester orientation modules, voluntary

Separate registration so drop-add is different from registration

Set higher academic standards

Set higher expectations

Set up a center for diagnosing and treating learning disorders

Shorten the fall and spring semesters each by one week. Students and faculty are exhausted by semester's end

Smaller class sizes

Smaller classes

So students understand how their program fits into the community at large

Some students have difficulties understanding professors with accents

Some students have difficulties understanding professors with accents

Some students have difficulties understanding professors with accents

Some students have difficulties understanding professors with accents; change hiring criteria

Special needs accomodations for on-line students needed to put this into practice.

Specific attendance policy

Sponsor and encourage group study

Start preparing students in high school

Stay abreast of current technology changes

Stay current on technology

Stick to dates even if student and/or parents complains to administration

Strategic thinking

Strong tutoring programs

Stronger relationship with business community (inside and outside Lake Charles)

Teach students basic studying skills (especially note-taking) early on so that they can succeed in survey classes

Teach study skills to students in a setting like Freshmen Foundations (more than one hour credit)

Teach them how to use calculators

Technology (as it evolves)

Technology needs improvement

Tell high schools what we require for our students to succeed

That we should vastly improve accessibility both on the web and around campus and within Electronic Learning, and in doing so that we should continue to improve our instructors knowledge of all of the above. Thus in doing so, we are improving our student's learning by improving our instructor's learning in all of these areas.

The Mass Communications department could certainly gain from having guest speakers that are well-known come in and share what their job(s) are like in the "real world". Bringing the two worlds (college and life-after college) together.

There are some departments on campus that that do not help students with their advising. In the MCOM Department we get help anytime we need. I believe that everyone on campus should get this same attention as well.

They could make sure they have the right professors that are willing to make sure that these kids are learning the information and not looking at them as just a number.

Tighten up the attendance policy

Too much emphasis on science and engineering students and not enough on liberal arts majors

Tougher and consistent standards in the classroom

Tours of businesses

Train faculty to use promethean boards and other technologies & enable students to use them.

Transfer advisor

Trying to engage students in the material by having them do a whole lot more work for the material

Tutoring

Tutoring in all programs

Tutors

Understand professors' accents

University-wide policy to limit distracting classroom behaviors--cell phone and so on

Up to date technology and equipment for engineering labs. Tools used presently are obsolete and not relevant to current industry standards. Simulation tools limited to expertise of teaching staff and often not relative. Insufficient software licenses to allow all students to use same package. Hire more professors to offer needed classes to allow graduation on schedule.

Working closer with high school level programs to tell them what students need to have to succeed, esp Language arts

Writing Enriched courses (and Livetext) not being utilized effectively or for its purpose

What should McNeese be doing to increase enrollment and retention?

1) Eliminate the SPUR program for recruitment of foreign students. It is inexplicable to understand why a student from Pakistan, India, China, the UAE, etc. be afforded Louisiana resident tuition. 2) Concentrate on hiring better qualified professors. Having a new Phd from China with no industrial experience teach engineering students what is expected of them in today's refining, petrochemical, etc. manufacturing environments is doing a disservice to the students. I understand why Exxon, Chevron, Shell, Conoco, DOW, BASF, Marathon, etc. do not consider hiring McNeese graduates. 3) Recruit more local students or expand the campus so other than local students will have a place to live if they attend McNeese.

A group of graduates who are actively looking for more McNeese graduates (and helping them find jobs)

A way to document advising university-wide

Ability to Clep out of classes

Actively seek federal grants

Add new curriculum

Additional degree offerings

Additional web courses

Adult education

Advertise all over the state

Advertise more all over the state

Advertise our academic successes

Advertise programs that are growing, such as H&HP and their athletic training program; SEED center offerings; focus on our strengths and advertise those

Advertise that MSU athletes graduate at double the rates of nonathletes

Advertisement

Advertising

Advertising our quality of education

Advertizing for Programs

Advising improved

Again add more majors and classes

Aggressive marketing and recruiting throughout LA, TX and internationally

Allowing the high school teams to play on McNeese's field on Friday nights

Alternative delivery systems

Alumni interaction at college nights

Alumni should be speaking with pride for their Alma Mater, and McNeese should not increase tuition, but increase what it takes to get into McNeese. If it's easy to get in, it becomes less valuable of an education.

Annual checkpoints with students as they progress

Anytime a McNeese student interviews for a McNeese position a career counselor should be in the interview to provide advice on skills afterward

Articulation agreements with 2 and 4-year schools

Assist local high schools to better prepare students for McNeese

Athletic success

Attendance and discipline

Attending more transition fairs

Attention to admission standards

Avoid increasing enrollment until you've taken care of present population of students-focus on quality

Award financial aid at the end of the term

Bathrooms are horrible and not clean

Be advertising more about what a great school McNeese is. Let the MCOM students make commercials and interact on the television with local stations to help further their education.

Become an open college. Offer some type of acceptance for those high school honor students that have worked so hard during those years to maintain honor scores, but can not pass one test, ACT!

Beef up counseling

Bells and whistles needed when we go out to recruit

Best price for local area

Better advising

Better advising

Better and more dorms

Better career and academic counseling

Better communication; Contraband, campus newsletter, etc.

Better integration for transfer credit courses

Better mentoring of students

Better orientation for online-only students

Better quality teaching

Better statewide recruitment of students

Better student pay based off experience and nature of work

Branding and identity

Bring alumni into the classrooms

Bring athletic teams on campus to our facilities, to bring junior highs and schools at all levels into our athletic events

Build a strong academic brand

Build more dorms so you can enroll more students.

Build the brand

Cafeteria

Campus expansion

Capitalize on literary rallies and ACT-SAT days--have gatherings afterward to recruit students to MSU

Career placement for graduates

Cast the advertising net far and wide; see ads for other universities here

Change mindset of high school students

Change the policy of students being able to take so many hours; charge per credit hour

Charge per credit hour

Charge tuition for all hours enrolled

Child care opportunities for nontraditional students

Choose McNeese billboards are very good-use alumni to represent

Class availability

Class size; students like personal touch

Collaborating with Sowela

College-Career days at high schools

Comprehensive marketing plan geared to high school students

Continue faculty and staff retreat at the beginning of the semester

Continue ties and relationships with high school

Continue to add more for the adult market

Continue to ensure that student safety-pedestrian safety

Continue to lock down this regional area

Continue to offer scholastic and financial help to Louisiana students. Work with High School teachers in Math and Science. Sell the teachers on the value of MSU's technical programs. Area teachers should be advocates of encouraging students to attend MSU. Continue to offer classes and seminars for continuing education to the community. Provide parents and outsiders and opportunity to experience MSU. Could help encourage children/grandchildren to attend.

Create alternatively-delivered programs. The CALL programs are fine, but they appeal to a small number of students--the community at-large does not know anything about them.

Create set of bragging points that everyone (grounds crew on up) can have and keep current

Credit recovery, like in Public schools

Cross-training between offices

Day care center, study areas and other environments to encourage engagement of off campus students

Designing facilities for more student events - richer campus life

Develop a niche in the state-a key program to distinguish ourselves--Innovative ideas that will last, not a flash in the pan

Develop a probation officer for students on probation

Develop a startup process for those who want an MBA but may not have the pre-reqs-so an Executive MBA

Develop the alumni association and related organizations to facilitate recruitment

Developing the four main degree programs: business, nursing, engineering, education

Discount on tuition if your parent is an alum

Discounted tuition

Distance learning programs

Do a better job of educating the public about what the University has to offer; housing, daycare, programs, etc.

Do a better job of meeting needs of non-traditional students, esp those who work

Do a better job of reaching out to the high schools

Do coop with larger universities with specialized graduate programs

Do more things appealing to the average college student, more trips for rewards

Do more to recruit and retain African American students

Don't be too restrictive about allowing high school graduates an opportunity to give college a try

Dormitories

Drop enrollment entries

Dual enrollment courses increased

Earlier drop date, limit drops

Early intervention programs for at-risk students

Earn a reputation of being a university cocerned with learning and research. This will attract the kind of students who will stay and graduate because it is a priority for them. We are losing these students to LSU, LA Tech, and ULL because of our small-time, unrecognized, unranked status. we are not even on their radar.

Educate the parents to change their perception of a McNeese degree

Effective advising is crucial

Eliminate out-of-state tuition for Texas students. Establish an outreach program to go into the local high schools to promote McNeese. Revive the TV commercial that illustrated the acceptance into Medical Schools of MSU graduates. Promote the McNeese Foundation and the establishment of endowed scholarships. Survey Junior students with the following questions: 1. What do you need in order to complete your degree at McNeese. Perhaps it is help paying for textbooks. Perhaps that is something that could be provided and the student could agree to "pay it forward" once they graduate.

Embrace online education

Emphasize the relational connections between students and instructors in their fields

Employ professional academic advisors in every college-similar to College of Nursing student services coordinator position and function

Encourage counselors to encourage principals to allow McNeese in college days

Encourage industry involvement in hiring McNeese graduates

Encourage peer study groups and work groups

Encourage student activity outside classroom with faculty and other students (focus on off campus residents)

Encourage students to visit the testing center when deciding to change their major

Encourage students to visit the visiting center when deciding to change their major

Enhance the role of our Director of Freshman Foundation and Students in Transition to be more of a resource for students. Develop our writing centers and tutoring centers to be more approachable and less intimidating.

Enhanced website

Enrollment - figure out how to get community college students attracted to your four year programs. Retention - up your enrollment standards - don't offer remedial classes - in othere words get freshmen who are academically capable of graduating in four years. Build a brand image by constantly promoting the successful graduates especially in the core academic fields - most high school kids and their parents don't know about the really successful graduates from McNeese

Ensure clear communication to students

Establish a presence on all high school campus

Establish one-stop enrollment center

Every department should reach out to the kids in high school

Exit interviews for drop-outs

Expand advertising beyond 5 parish area

Expand graduate programs

Expand graduate school

Expand internet education

Explore reasons for retention problems (why and where do students go)

Fee structure

Festival or cultural events geared toward students

Festivals/Events

Field trips for high schools to McNeese campus

Find a way to get out to Texas or outside of Louisiana to attract students

Find reasons for losing students to area universities

Finding a niche; research institution, for example

First - fight complacency - Help students focus, graduate & find jobs - that's McNeese's best advertising. AND - Build a stronger partnership with SOWELA. If both McNeese & Sowela worked together we could really compete with the schools in Baton Rouge, New Orleans and the out of state ones too. A strong parnership like that would really be exciting.

Focus internationally and for nontraditional students to recruit

Focus on personal touch

Focus on strengths

Follow up with those who leave before graduating

Forge alliances with corporate businesses making our students more competitive

Foster the image of student friendly in all colleges

Freshman orientation pep talk about the realities of higher education

From a retention standpoint: exit surveys could be administered with the Freshman in each college

Get an outside opinion on what would be a good campaign for us-focused marketing campaign

Get faculty-staff to buy-in to the importance of their roles

Get freshmen invested in the University, the area, the community, etc.

Get involved with area high school progams host high school events. From all over the state.

Get on ESPN

Get students K-12 on campus

Give more high school students an opportunity to try

Go everywhere and sell McNeese to the public

Good advising

Graduate open house was a good idea; possibly move it to Gradfest

Great relationship with Jeff Davis

Greater presence with online classes

Hands-on experience

Have an active presence in the HS starting around 10th grade

Have an aptitude test to see if students are inclined to be engineers, nursing, etc.

Have an intro class for freshman about pikcing a major, available careers, give them a vision of where they are going

Have the faculty and staff be more knowledgeable and accepting of student life initiatives

Having excellent courses within the state

Help find a way for non-traditional students to make the transition easier

Help students connect with other students, with the university, with faculty

Help students find housing off campus and work plan with local businesses.

Helping students determine what they want to study and major in

High school band competition on campus

High school night with local bands

Highlight success stories

I believe McNeese is doing a fine job in this area.

Identify students in 2nd -4th semesters who have poor attendance and/or grades or are on academic probation and require aptitude, academic and/or therapy intervention

Identify the local market and serve them-focus on local demographic

Identifying at-risk students at an earlier date

Impressing students with what they now know that they did not have knowledge of before McNeese.

Improve academic quality ---> attract higher quality students ---> increase retention ---> increase enrollment. We don't have to bring in any more warm bodies. We have enough already. If we only increase the quality of the warm bodies we have, retention will increase and naturally result in an increase in enrollment.

Improve individual campus tours - make it about the student

Improve MSU's reputation as an academic institution- prove publicly that we are a fine place to get an education- perhaps highlight successful graduates (and not just faculty) research grants

Improve reputation of university so that major corporations will hire graduates. Why attend a community university when employment possibilities for graduates are automatically limited? Concentrate more on local population instead of international community. Offer same incentives to area students and out-of-state students that are afforded to international students.

Improve the buildings for student learning

Improve website

Improved admissions

Improved advising

Improved information

Increase all forms of marketing

Increase and improve on-campus housing; student retention improves when they are required to live on campus for at least the first year

Make it easier to transfer into McNeese from Sowela or other schools without losing credit

Make McNeese a school of choice

Make persistent "flunkers" take the career services aptitude test

Make scholarship information readily available to students

Make students feel at home

Make sure employees are offering great customer service to students

Make sure our personnel are equipped with a quickfacts to take into schools or other area entities to liaise for the campus

Making it more desirable to stay on campus

Making sure that McNeese is in the media as often as possible.

Market the successes of students

Market to elementary and middle schools, get MSU graduates to give talks to them

Market to retirees

Marketing

Marketing

Masters degrees/graduate programs

McNeese needs to be a school of choice

McNeese needs to be thought of as a destination instead of a way station

McNeese representatives explain financial aid to community

McNeese should have a larger advertising push outside of the local area.

McNeese should use the Mass Communication department to increase enrollment and the way the department advises for retention.

Mentoring

Mentoring for at-risk students

Mentoring programs in a variety of areas

Mentorships outside the classroom during education process

More adult education

More advisers

More affordable housing

More attention to the syllabi-professor accountable for sticking to the syllabi

More career-testing to determine best academic/career track for individual students' potential

More community outreach and involvement in various areas would likely help with this as well as continuation of remedial instruction where necessary.

More competitive academic programs

More coordination with Sowela

More dual credit courses

More effective advising

More financial aid options; extended length of financial aid

More formal learning programs for community members.

More hands-on activities; internships; mentorships

More high school visits

More in the high schools to encourage them come to McNeese

More interaction with secondary schools and McNeese

More of a focused retention plan with strategies that can be implemented with measurable outcomes and communicated across campus

More on campus housing

More on campus job opportunities

More on campus social activities for students

More on campus student jobs

More online classes

More online courses

More online courses

More online courses and programs

More online degrees

More opportunities for high school seniors

More outreach and marketing

More outside this area recruitment-visibility-e.g. Shreveport

More personal attention, better scholarships and prizes

More practical opportunities--interships, co-op projects

More presence through online degree programs. Better research and work in ensuring graduates have jobs or numerous job opps. Increase school pride. New library.

More publicity in areas outside our community; recruitment strategy

More scholarships

More seminars and workshops to both faculty and students

More student activities

More trips-as rewards for grades, involvement, etc

More Weekend and night courses

Move some new student scholarship funds toward retention of current students

Need better campus-wide awareness of enrollment-registration policies

Need more evening classes or online offerings; seem to be an 8-5 university

Need one-stop shop for transfer students; they get lost in the shuffle

Need to be visible in the community. If there is an event, large employers such as Citgo, PPG and others have a team, a booth or whatever. You don't see MSU there or it is only on a departmental level.

Night classes directed toward working students

Not quite sure where we addressed that the LCAP would not print some honors for MSU. I rec sending it to all local papers in the region. These papers often are looking for info and print most any article submitted. Put the LCAP to shame for shunning some our accolades.

Off-campus sites (expand)

Offer and promote a structured 3-year degree

Offer discounts to students referring other students to offer recruitment enticement

Offer flexible learning class schedules

Offer in-state tuition for TX residents

Offer more 8:00 a.m. classes

Offer more classes at various times; night classes

Offer more on-campus housing

Offer more online courses

Offer more unique degree plans, greater advertising across the state and other regional locations

Offer scholarships to out of state students to bring them down to the in-state rate

Offer Sowela classes on campus to help recruit future students

Offer special programs/assistance to veterans (especially wounded)

Offer transition mentoring to freshmen

On the meal plan-don't keep the students' money, refund the declining balance.

One of our more positive things we do

One-stop shop of resources for online students; have online forms all in one place

Ongoing education for high school counselors

Online education

Online learning

Online program increase offerings

Open up events specifically to high schools in SFAA and other similar facilities

Orientation for transfer students

Orientation needs more excitement

Out in the public more-more advertising, television and so on

Out of state recruitment

Out-of-state advertising

Out-of-state recruitment

Outreach to area High Schools, Allow high school swim teams to utilize indoor pool for practice or swim meets. Barbe your largest feeder school was denied access for practicing indoors during cold weather.

Outreach-education

Outreach-McNeese products in other area towns, e.g. Vinton

Partner with other state colleges so transfers do not lose hours

Pay attention to freshmen

Peers listen to peers; get those students to help recruit other students

Perhaps the on-line programs should be advertised more to increase enrollment- and possibly we can streamline these programs to increase retention

Promote the honors college--an amazing program that has no current promotion

Promoting quality education

Promoting student involvement

Provide curriculum maps for each student, teach them the meaning and how to read the map

Provide more on campus jobs to get students to stay engaged and learn McNeese

Provide students in high schools with study skills before they arrive here

Push advanced placement in high schools; find a way for universities to accept credit for advanced placement courses

Pushing the fact that it is an at home school

Put faculty pictures on website

Quality education at a reasonable price

Raise admission standards

Raise admissions standards

Raise summer salaries for faculty

Ratchet up the selling of McNeese

Raw product in product out

Recognition of star employees

Recruit and mentor

Recruit early admissions and at Louisiana School for Math Science

Recruit from Sowela

Recruit further north in LA. Ensure sufficient dorm space to house any increase in students too. Our top programs (engineering, nursing, etc) should be advertised statewide.

Recruit good students! They are out there!

Recruit more at the high schools, not just for athletics. Let the high school students know how well respected many of the degree programs are. Encourage and coordinate alumni to talk with high school students about the job possibilities with a degree, expected salary, and the greatness of McNeese.

Recruit or advertise McNeese outside the state

Recruiters should communicate with parents as well as prospective students

Reduce the number of required classes that are on rotation

Reevaluating admissions requirements

Regional clubs; such as New Orleans club

Regional marketing

Relevant degree offering

Remedy the view that we're a stepping-stone to somewhere else

Require at-risk students to go for emergency counseling

Require Freshman Foundations for at-risk students only

Require students to talk face to face with faculty before dropping a class

Retraining

"Review each and every curriculum that is offered. Then ask yourself is this class absolutely necessary for the students' success in the future? Maybe ridding unnecessary classes would increase the 35% graduation rate. Better advising and communication between departments so that students are held for additional semesters to complete curriculums.

Sell the value of our education to outside states; compared to Texas schools, we win the battle

Send University student representatives to high schools throughout the year to interact

Sending students to go to high school from different colleges

Service learning

Service learning

Service learning and service in the university

Service to community so that future students see that involvement and remember it. Close ties to the freshman students we do have which means the adviser student ratio should be decreased by placing students immediately with advisers in their majors. Students waiting a month to get in to see their adviser or hours in line during late registration is unacceptable. Students are simply not going to wait and go somewhere else or quit college all together.

Set a higher standard for enrollment and continue to promote and encourage student involvement/leadership across campus and in the community.

Set higher admission standards

Set up drop fees for classes that are being dropped

Shadow days; invite high school students to spend the day

Share more statistics and facts with the community

Short on department pages on web-need faculty bios, photos, other requirements that need to be up, e.g. audition requirements

Shorten the length of fall-spring semesters by one week

Show the potential students of the Lake Charles area and surrounding areas of McNeese's prestigious stand point. Many students disregard or downgrade McNeese because they do not see it as an esteemed university. I myself was surprised to find out the "big picture" of how others outside of growing up around McNeese see the university.

Showcasing our successful students

Significantly increased push in the high schools with regard to dual enrollment and ability to graduate early; carve into that pie more than we currently are

Simplify process of enrollment and service oriented

Single parent opportunities--night classes, for example; daycare; early childhood education for the children

Social networking

Some students have said it's too expensive to live here-not enough campus housing and rent is too high on area apartments

Some type of financial counseling for juniors and seniors

Speaking to students about education and a profession in one

Specifically going after students that begin at a college away from home and return home to here-recruit them

Speed up financial aid academic appeals process

Split summer school into two 5-week sessions rather than one longer session

Support and encourage professors who spend time with their students or develop new programs

Support system for non-traditional students

Survey the SWLA area for careers that are in demand and are good paying jobs. Put in major course curriculums for those careers that are needed and are opportunistic. This evergreen course schedule would be attractive to students. For instance, Process Technology is an important course of study for industry bound students. People working in this career can easily make over $100,000/yr and have benefits on top of that. MSU teaches PTech, but there are others that could be added, and yet others that could be culled.

Tailor advertisement to help students understand where they want to go to school and career path

Take a hard look at college algebra and math113-(student preparation for and remediation of those who fail repeatedly); retention-scholarship to support their staying in classes

Take them to career services for better direction in their career path

Talk to other universities that have been successful at increasing enrollment and retention

Tapping into our resources across the river; East Texas students, not just athletes; waive out of state tuitions

Target students who are below a certain GPA for specific mentoring and follow-up

Target the best students in the state and offer them the opportunity to test out of classes; one of the best selling tools

Teach students how to take notes

Teaching to need

Tenure and grading of faculty; accountability

Test our students on the syllabus during the first or second week of class; make it worth the same as the mid-term

Textbooks are too expensive. Maybe electronic textbooks.

The website is 60-70% of the outside world's contact with our university

Thinking of new ways

Thorough exit interviews of students

Tie our service learning to areas not as familiar to us; advertise what is being done with relation to service learning

Try to have each program identify what it does and what it does better than other programs in the state; why is this program unique

Using more distance learning tech, like Skype, compressed video in real time

Utilize more community input into recruitment

Visit high schools

Visits to schools and businesses

Waive out of state fees for East Texas students

We need to do more work in the local schools. We need liaisons to all of the area high schools. We need to have tables at science and social studies fairs. We need to have contests (math and writing) for students and offer scholarship awards (it could be a small book scholarship). For with retention I would say the biggest is admission and registration. It is a pain and difficult for students to maneuver. We also need TOPS sessions not just for Advisors but for parents/students (LSU has those) that teach students what exactly they need to keep TOPS.

We should increase Electronic Learning to our non-traditional students, especially trying to encompass the MBA program and other masters level programs. We have lost a great deal of our graduate learners to other schools with online learning programs and we do not have any graduate programs right now except for our Nursing program. Also, I do not know how that we can increase the COMPASS testing program to increase the levels of our non-traditional learners who may not need to take developmental courses and therefore increase their levels of getting into our CALL courses and other undergraduate courses.

Website-Search engine optimization

Weeknight, evening, Saturday seminars to prep high schools students on admissions procedures

Work on improving the value of the degree

Work with industries , govts, business communities to retain MSU grads in area; there is an intellectual drain of MSU-trained professionals to other areas of the country. Start at middle school level recruting at-risk students to participate in summer school, camps, programs that effectively combine practical and academic learning, helping students engage

Work with school counselors

Work with Sowela

Work with students that are dropping/failing classes to determine what the problem(s) is/are-and resolve those issues. Is it a bad professor? lack of undestanding of material?

Work with the public schools to get them more qualified to be here

Work with the school boards to encourage fieldtrips to MSU for junior high and high school kids

Working better with high school counselors; promoting McNeese to the high schools

If you could identify one aspect of the McNeese experience that "brands" us as distinct from other institutions, what would it be?

Academic performance and graduation rates of athletes, general student pride in student athletes

Access to equipment and technology; labs

Access to faculty

Access to Opportunity

Accessibility of leadership

Accessibility to the farms as part of the academic experience

Accessible

Active alumni

Administrative staff credibility

Advertise our ability to accommodate people with disabilities

Advising

Affordable

Agricultural atmosphere encourages students to come here; rodeo

Alumni contribute to local communities

Alumni support; community support

Always maintaining our accreditation status

Approachable faculty

As our motto says "Excellence with a personal touch" The ability to talk to a live person regarding any issues.

Athletic program as well as Mass Communication.

Athletic recognition

Athletically our standards are higher than elsewhere

Athletics

Athletics

Athletics, engineering and other degrees that will lead to jobs in the oil industry. Embrace the culture bc it is so distinct: sportsman's paradise

Availability of instructors and staff

Band's on the upswing

Banner series

Banners

Banners

Banners

Banners program makes us unique

Banners Series

Beautiful environment

Being a cowboy

Being a small school it's possible to get to know more of your peers and not feel lost among the crowd--this is attractive to many students and the main reason my son attended Tech and not LSU.

Being who we are; our identity

Best value for the money

Better football

Blue and gold

Blue and Gold

BLUE and GOLD. And that wonderful personal touch.

Build on our past--esp. publishing successes

Cajuns

Calcasieu parish

Campus size--not too big or too small

Can-do attitude

Cannon

Caring and personal

Caring instructors

Catch redfish off the civic center wall

City-Lake Charles

Class size.

Classes are taught by faculty not TAs

Classroom size

Close, almost familial, campus to administration relations

Close, everything in a small area makes it easy to get from one side to another

Collectively promote an identity

College of Engineering has more applied education than other universities

College program accreditation

Community

Community

Community clinic on campus

Community Support

Concentrate on developing a brand and do that without sacrificing other aspects of the university (we can promote a discipline without sacrificing the other divisions)

Cowboy Football, Banners, community connections

Cowboy Pride

Cowboy pride

Cowboy, rodeo culture

Cowboys

Cowboys & logo.

Cowboys of the South

Cowboys/girls

Culture

Culture

Darryl's

Debate team

Don't become an "At"

Ease of adapting to a college environment, its not hard to blend in at McNeese.

Easy for commuter students

Easy involvement

Education with south-Louisiana culture

Efficiency of operations

Employee loyalty

Employment stats for graduates

Engineering

Engineering

Entire university is friendlier; bookstore…

Establish a particular niche within the ULS system to make us stand out

Everything is simplified here

Everything is simplified here.

Excellence with a Personal Touch

Excellence with a Personal Touch

Excellence with a personal touch

Excellence with a personal touch is the perfect "brand" that our motto can give us.

Excellence with a personal touch; about as fitting as can be

Execellence with a personl touch, McNeese Cowboys

Expose engineering students to equipment inventory within the dept

Faculty

Faculty/student relationships are different than anywhere else

Faculty-student relationships

Family

Family atmosphere

Family type experience

Fan support for our football program

Feeder institution for local industry and businesses

Fight song

Fine arts programs; Banners Series offered to community and faculty and staff

Finish here or go on to anywhere in the world

Fiscal responsibility

Flagship programs

Football

Football program

Football tradition; wig tradition

Football, nursing

Football; alumni support

Friendly

Friendly atmosphere and a caring staff

Friendly atmosphere and a caring style

Friendly/ family atmosphere

Friendly; student friendly

Get over the perception of being Ryan Street High

Go to the horse's mouth is OK policy

Good food, good times

Good football team

Good tailgating

Great area to live in; great people that live here, culture, activities, festivals, low crime rate, nursing program, industry, weather, food

Great athletics

Great education in a small university environment

Great education, competitive with the best universities

Great library

Great tailgaiting, fans travel well

Hands-on experiences for students in agriculture

Hardship-always some struggle going on here

Have more fun here at McNeese

Have the most unique fight song in the world

High acceptance to professional schools

Highly engaged students

How comfortable departments are in contacting one another; not hierarchical

I can't and maybe that is a problem in itself.

I don't know anything unique about McNeese.

I don't know.

I think McNeese does a wonderful job at executing our motto: Excellence with a Personal Touch.

I think our innovation engineering program could work as a brand. If we could integrate it with other colleges and (taking from my enrollment ideas) having innovation fairs that works with students to create new ideas and programs.

I think that our community service to our students and our service with a smile and a hug!

Opportunity for quality education and to grow as individual with strong support system

Our education department

Our motto, Excellence with a Personal Touch

Our name

Our name is our brand

Our pride, our traditions

Our size

Our university is named after an educator

Partnership with industries and local schools

Party

People

People

People here

People who care

People; accessibility; openness; attention to students

Personable

Personable

Personable

Personable

Personable side of serving our students-we're the right size

Personal interest in students

Personal interest in the students

Personal professor and student bonds

Personal touch

Personal touch

Personal touch

Personal touch

Personal touch

Personal touch

Personal touch

Personal touch

Personal touch with our students

Personal touch, open doors

Personal, close-knit community

Physical therapy program

Professors know your name

Professors that are instructors

Programs that allow students to excel in their majors such as nursing

Proximity to outstanding outdoor activities

Publicity in local media

Quality affordable education

Quality education

Quality education on a local level

Quality of life

Recruiting new band members and athletes is working; pick their brain to see how they do it

Regional institution

Relying too much on past academic accomplishments, and current emphasis on sports programs. I love football, baseball, track ... all of it. But restore some of that energy to the academic side so that McNeese builds on its reputation as a school that consistently prepares people for the professions, business and industry. And use some of that energy on research. That is what universities do.

Rodeo

Rodeo

Rodeo

Rodeo in addition to other sports

Rodeo team is strong; strong traditions

Rowdy

School pride

School spirit

SEED center

SEED center

Semi-rural setting with focus on learning--fewer distractions

Sense of family

Significant interaction with students and industry

Small and smart

Small campus environment. Inexpensive.

Small class settings

Small class size

Small class sizes

Small class sizes

Small class sizes and individualized instruction and advising

Small enough for personal touch; large enough to provide university experience

Small enough to be a community but large enough to be a real university experience

Small home town feel.

Small school

Small town university with big time educational experience

Small town university with big time educational experience

Smaller class sizes

"Smaller classes with plenty of interaction between professor and student if that is what the student prefers.

We are named after an educator rather than a location."

Some of the faculty is very helpful and want to see their students do well, even if that student is struggling. Those faculty members say, "...that is their job." This is something you will not find in a lot of other colleges and universities.

Southern, personal

Southwest LA culture

Southwest Louisiana delegation (positive representation of McNeese)

Southwest Louisiana facility

Sports, the hook to get people here, but make sure we keep them with great programs-nursing, agriculture and make that our niche

The community spirit. You can feel McNeese love everywhere you go. I LOVE IT.

The considerable number of faculty-staff who really do care and make the university experience personable

The horse and rider logo

The size and look of the campus

This is one problem with McNeese. We really do not have a niche, at least none that achieve real notariety. We may be the only school in the state with a rodeo team. Alright, but is that really special? ULM has pharmacy, LA Tech has engineering. We need a reputable program that is not only the best in the state, but has high rankings in the nation. I would recommend a Natural Resource Research Center. This would be a joint venture between engineering, agriculture, and business. Research could be done on oil/gas exploration, minerals, and alternative energy. This would be the first one in the state and would attract students and gain us prestige.

Ties with industry and business. There are so many ties with Alumni in local business and industry.

Tradition in strong football program

Traditions

Traditions

Travel well with athletics; football team

Unfortunately nothing but the football team comes to mind.

Unidentifiable; community maybe

Unsure

Very family friendly

We are a regional university.

We are not truly distinct. We have a niche just like some other schools.

Field study series; allow professor to design a field study offering; cover transportation and insurance

Football

Former alumni visiting with students

Free beer on Friday

Freshman orientation with alumni "Fish camp"

Funding for recruiting visits

Funding-Support for foreign students

Fundraising for scholarships

Get more people involved to add to those already involved

Get the buildings to look alike so the campus looks like a campus

Gigantic blue and gold horseshoe prints coming down all the streets coming to campus

Giving students a chance who might otherwise not have access

Go viral!

Going green

Good sound system in every lab-room

Graphics studio that would take in pro-bono work from the community (charge to cover costs of production plus 10%)

Hands-on learning experience

Have live music concert events featuring traveling or touring music acts or local bands that have former students. KMSU radio would be a huge boon to the community with specialized programming for all listeners.

Having international program - trips abroad to study

Having other scholars visit campus

Having time to get excited about something

Help students outside of class

Honoring Greater Houston alumni

Honoring McNeese alumni at halftime of football game

Horse steak night

Host a hacker space

Host events like Rouge et Blanc on the quad

Hosting events, festivals

Hosting undergrad-graduate conferences here in facilities that are appropriate

I already give what I think is 200 percent of my time and energy to McNeese! I work a great deal of time on the weekends and extra time after work that I do not even count-because it really doesn't matter. I really have given my heart and soul to my department and what I feel is giving back to McNeese. I suppose that if I could have someone to help out, that would mean that I could think of even more to do with my department!

I am not a joining of clubs, yet, if McNeese sent out a message to Alumni that they were needed I would be there.

I think McNeese is already doing that with many activities that people can get involved in.

Idea of moving to the next level (away from Regional into a state university)

Identify one of the nation' most troublesome problems and launch a program to research, identify solutions and develop an implementation strategy: e.g. literacy, issues related to the elderly, children & family , autism , substance abuse...feeding the nation (agriculture). We have a rich heritage here in sugar cane, rice, cattle, not to mention seafood. Any of these are worthy of a research program at McNeese to get our young adults involved in testing and preparing solutions for the problems facing their future.

If everyone was pulling their weight. It is hard to work and work and then see others who are barely lifting their pinky fingers and getting the exact same pay, tenure and promotion.

Implementation of tutoring center with ongoing tutor training and support

Improving pride in campus

In resurrecting the observatory for the university and community.

Innovation curriculum

Innovation engineering

Innovative ways of teaching

Integrate civility into campus life

Interactivity with industry and business (students with industry and professions)

Open our doors to kids at Boys Village, Big Brothers, etc. to come in free

Organization resource room for student organizations

Our own summer study abroad program that includes all colleges

Overload pay

Package season or all sports year; give passes at a discounted rate through payroll deduction

Partnerships

Peer leaders

PhD Program

Places to do research (where students can go do research)

Positioning the University to be a regional institution with a statewide reach

Practice room pianos that are in tune

Professional conference travel money

Programs that link/measure efforts to results

Programs that link/measure efforts to results

Promote research and development in business and engineering

Publish more

Receiving materials that explained what all is taking place at McNeese; materials that are of interest, timely, etc. LIKE PILLARS

Recognition

Recognizing over-achievers

Recruiting locally (Houston ISDs)

Recruiting more local students

Recruiting out of town alumni to come back

Recruitment of students

Recycling

Recycling

Renovate planetarium

Renovate the observatory

Research

Research with students

Restoring economics major

Return historic athletic rivalries--play ULL again

Scientific research projects

See cheerleaders and student groups pile into the cowboy bus and literally visit every minority school and spark interest in the university. Plant a seed that the university is for everybody.

See McNeese's name everywhere in Lake Charles, community support

SEED Center

Seeing McNeese displays at local businesses; prominent

Social functions / mixers for alumni.

Some sort of mentoring program for high school students, almost like the Big Brother Big Sister program.

Someone asked

Soundproofing

Special evening programs like international films

Sports management program

Student contests (when nursing program presents research in ranch), student symposium with awards

Student involvement

Students have some many issues to contend with; an initiative that might help students with their needs outside of the classrooms; daycare; single parents; reach out effort

Students to start their own business

Study abroad

Study abroad

Study abroad programs

Study-abroad advisor staff position (start as part-time, then full)

Success breeds success

Summer high school junior scholars program

Taking a lead in the environment of SWLA and trimming the boredom syndrome in our high schools

Talking to the high school seniors in our 5 parish area and let them ask questions to our students

Teach the concepts, principles, and tools of the Quality process. Teach all the stuff that Deming and Covey taught. How to use statistics, conduct efficient meetings, find and eliminate root causes, how to be a leader of an organization or industry, etc.

Technical innovation in the arts 3D graphic design

Texas-alumni event to get TX alumni on-campus

Textbook trading program

The business group that used to exist; business advisory board

The drama department

The idea of moving to the next level

"The McNeese Alumni database should be merged with the McNeese Foundation database to better serve the University and the community."

Try to have the best engineering program in the state.

Try to move up a tier research-wise

Twice a year host a festival and invite public and have art, engineering projects, physics demonstrations, etc.

University helping others around us like the community

Video game development in DMCS

Volunteer opportunities

Wakeboarding

Wakeboarding team

We currently give money to girls and boys basketball , the rodeo team, and football program. Both my wife and I are long time members of The Cowboy Club. We enjoy going to the baseball and softball games when time allows.

What ideas do you have about improving McNeese that have not already been mentioned?

1) Have plans to abate all asbestos on campus within the next 7 years. Budget for a systematic removal of all ACM known in all facilities on and off campus. 2) When technology is mentioned most people think of computers and associated hardware/software. An area that is overlooked and very much in need of improvement is mass com. This area is very much behind the times as far as equipment and associated technology. I have had needs to develop training programs for university personnel but do not have the capabilities nor funding to do so. And, mass com has not been able to assist due to inadequate funding and equipment.

A week-long festival centered on or around McNeese that promotes the higher arts and learning of our city

Access to more scientific journals in the Library; improvements to Library

Accessibility of horse and rider logo

Add another day to the week

Additional incentives for graduate faculty

Additional study areas campus wide

Adequate cleaning staff for Kaufman

Advertise in SE Texas

Advisors should be more involved and encouraging

All employees work on customer service skills

All faculty need proper office space and functioning equipment

Allow high school teachers to apply to register their students for free in order to give them access to the library--hs teachers must bring students to library for introduction

Allow staff with dual master's degrees or PhDs to teach classes as adjuncts as part of their normal job functions; Faculty research poster session (greater visibility for faculty success); Continuing education courses for professionals on "fun" topics such as "films in the classroom," "Sciences on television," gaming and education," etc.

Always put students first

American press-a department each week getting publicity

Ancillary careers that are related to football using alumni money donated to football

As a faculty member, I live in the McNeese community, and I enjoy it. I grow disappointed, though, when I experience how inefficient some of our processes are and how complicated some simple tasks are (like the process from applying for admission to enrolling the first semester). I STRONGLY recommend roundtable discussions where faculty, staff, and students may express their concerns for situations like these. The strategic planning meetings are not necessarily the appropriate forum.

At South Dakota State, no state support is given; it all comes from student fees and contributions; look at the future in how to grow the campus

Attract and retain professors that have experiences in American industry and are fluent in English.

Avoid bandwagons, buzzwords, and jargon

Avoid becoming LSU west

Banners series helps to dispel the Ryan Street High idea

Beautification of contraband bayou

Beautification of contraband bayou

Because we aren't quite as competitive with salaries, we have some "inbreeding" we tend to hire our own graduates a lot

Become greenest University in Louisiana

Believe in ourselves - we are as strong as we want to be

Better communication during emergencies (better timing)

Better communication during emergencies--use cell phones not just web

Better cross-marketing between campus and athletics

Better dissemination of information throughout the ranks (not just emergency info)

Change the format for graduation; since we acknowledge all the graduates at graduation, it prohibits us from having a national/keynote speaker; consider recognizing graduates in their individual colleges

Class designations should be the same across the state; for example, Geography 200 may be 400-level elsewhere-articulation

Coherent signage system throughout campus to guide people-labeling buildings-where and what they are

"Collaborate with ULL and Northwestern or even Lamar to provide hybrid graduate degree programs Limited options for master's and doctoral programs in the liberal arts in southwestern Louisiana present a shortcoming to quality of life here for older learners like me. I doubt I'm the only person in the area that wants to be a lifelong learner. I hope that McNeese, working with other, existing programs in the region, can provide more attractive options for me.

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Communication

Competitive salaries for entry level faculty; current faculty

Conduct tours with community members, business owners, etc. Letting people know what is on the campus and happening around the campus

Consistency of technology funding for faculty-replacement of machine, etc.

Consistent grounds-keeping

Consistent upkeep in buildings, facilities and grounds

Consolidate all athletic booster clubs into one

Constant focus on public relations; get it out there for the community

Continually put out good stories about McNeese and what we do for the community--Economic impact

Course syllabi-university policies made available at least one week prior to classes on a website or automatically loaded onto blackboard-moodle for every course

Create a College of Nursing and Allied Health bringing the allied health programs under a common umbrella, expanding health related programs, and offering similar core requirement/prerequisites so students can easily transfer between health/medical programs without losing excessive credits.

Create a credit system as the meal plan so that the credits can also be used at local restuarants. More students will be willing to buy meal plan if they can also use the credits around restuarants close to campus. Increase research and degree programs that can utilize the swamp environment of this area. The pool facility is not being used very well. Allow after school programs or swim classes to make use of the pool.

Create a culture of town and gown-where everything in the community promotes the university and vice-versa!!!

Create a McNeese niche

Create a newsletter

Create a program (like at UT Austin) for students 6-16 where they preregister, go to classes in different buildings, and get experience with a variety of majors

Develop a self-sufficient horticultural system with greenhouses and student labor

Develop and implement long term marketing plan

Develop and MSU garden group to assist with weeding and maintenance

Develop McNeese as an intellectual venue

Develop program for senior citizens

Different classroom furniture--chairs and tables instead of desks to facilitate group work

Directional informational signs on campus and buildings

Ditto

Diversity initiatives needed

Do a Google audit of everything McNeese related--counter all negatives

Do a youtube audit for McNeese-related videos

Don't change curriculum around the faculty

Don't let the tuition get too high

Don't study this too long (the mission-strategic plan) just do it

Dress code

Dress code

Driving down Ryan St; Alpha for example, is beautiful; improving the look of campus; first impressions

Either improve Freshman Foundations or get rid of it

Electronic books

Eliminate academic and athletic scholorships for out of state and out of the country students to save taxpayer money which would reduce university costs. Where is the investment going when they leave the state upon graduation? Money saved would help in state students.

Eliminate the first week of parking amnesty

Emphasize our campus along Ryan Street-to emphasize the campus

Employee of the month

Encourage all departments to have ties with local businesses and industry

Encourage more relations between non-academic departments to share mailing lists or distribute info and promotional activities

Encourage production of a video yearbook from student-generated material; encourage student generated media of all kinds; use TASC money to establish editing room and equipment

Encouraging networking post-graduation

Enforce parking the first week of school

Engage faculty across campus socially

Enhance McNeese's cultural events to increase its prestige as a University

Examine our processes to determine if we could streamline anything-reduce red tape

Exhibition charity football games vs LSU or the Saints

Expand Kirkman hall

Expand parking on campus

Expand satellite locations for classes in this region

Expand student leadership development and multicultural experiences

Expand the mailing list for PILLARS. The mailing list should include faculty, staff, donors, alumni AND community members. At present, PILLARS is sent to only 1,800 donors who have contributed $100 or more in the past three years. Lamar State has a distribution of over 50,000 people for their magazine. Appalachian State University's magazine goes to about 35,000 people. It is commonly said that McNeese doesn't "toot its horn" enough and the community doesn't know what goes on here. PILLARS publication is one of many tools that can and should be employed to educate the public.

Graduation at a nicer location with a nationally recognized graduation speaker

Graduation attendance

Grassroots marketing (ruler with name on it to give out at elementary schools)

Great idea for this forum...keep up the good work. Don't be afraid to ask why.

Greek life expansion and more Greek housing

Grow the endowment

Hands-on experience

Hard to have meetings on campus (with offsite people) due to parking

Hard to navigate website

Have a follow-up on strategic planning sessions to update on what progress is being made

Have a great fine arts facility and curriculum; take advantage of that

Have a identity problem with the surrounding area; getting people to come to McNeese instead of going to LSU or elsewhere; taking our great product for grated

Have a presence in Baton Rouge and Washington

Have a student speak at commencement

Have a true at-risk detection system in place and create a system of support for these students

Have an intern at McNeese helping local media know what's going on at McNeese

Have brainstorming session in a less "sanitary" place. Open the mind up more.

Have healthier food choices around the campus--both on and off campus

Have more administrators with the vision, management style, and wide background of Dr. Williams

Have professional training for department heads, deans, and administrators

Have the students engaged in creating a project they can sell and use it for fundraising (for example, cheese in Wisconsin)

Having a central marketing, communication department

Having one architectural look for facilities

Having our custodial staff late in the day so it's fresh for night students

Higher pay for overloads

Highlight faculty and where they were educated and continuous education of the faculty and staff

Highlight student accomplishments

Highlight students and where they go after graduation, which professions they are serving successfully

Highlight successful alumni all over the country

Highlight the premier programs only available at McNeese

Hold all areas to a certain standard of integrity

Honoring Sowela's faculty hangtags to facilitate meetings

Hotel Management

I am always thinking of ideas and I have written grants and I am always willing and able to write more and to do more!

I think as a whole this campus looks run down. Landscaping always looks like someone just whacked it off. I think looks instill a sense of pride. I know money is tight but the campus could be improved in small ways that would have an overall greater impact

I think we should join the One Book, One Community program.

I would like McNeese to continue marketing and promoting itself in the community in every place possible so that parents desire to send their students to MSU. I would like to do whatever it takes to have parents think first of MSU before LSU

ID Scanners to track attendance

Idea paint

If we could be more sensitive-truly aware-of issues and needs of those with disabilities

It is in the best long term interest to have one strong athletic foundation; eliminate all the separate clubs such as Quarterback Club, Petrochem Club, etc.

It would be beneficial for you to have one [planning] meeting with people who have NO connection to MSU

Join with other international universities

Joint online curriculum with other universities

Keep alumni actively involved in the school's academic activities - not just the tailgating. Nothing wrong with tailgating but don't let the involvement end there. Excitement is contagious: connect their excitement for athletics to the other areas of the institution and get them ino the real heart of McNeese.

Keep Banners forever!

Keep Blackboard

Keep open ongoing dialogue with all constituencies

Keep reforming your leadership culture to have the best instructors (make sure the personal touch is authentic and real)

Keep the connection with alumni to McNeese

Keeping facilities maintained

Keeping the winning tradition

Key card access to buildings

Landscaping

Laptop-technology resource checkout for faculty in case they need to travel, etc

Leadership curriculum

Leadership speakers

Less paperwork; more online forms available

Level the old married housing buildings and build an Athletic village--housing, rec, dining--full facilities for athletes

Make career development an integral part of the student experience from prospect to alumni status

Make events more family oriented, try to get communities and outer communities more involved. Sorry to say that I don't do much for McNeese, because there is nothing there. Our son is a student there and he says the same things too!

Make McNeese the center for international trade, training, etc. for small businesses

Make sure phones are answered in every department

Make the name McNeese more recognizable nationwide

Making Dr. Williams student philosophy contagious to faculty and staff

Making our alumni in each city more active/involved

Making sure McNeese upgrade the Mass Comm department

Making the major boundaries of campus more integrated into the campus

Mandatory for professor to use Blackboard-Moodle

Marketing, marketing, marketing

Mass Comm department has a lot of students and needs more resources

Master of Arts in Humanities using existing grad courses in social sciences and history

McNeese monorail

McNeese should brew their own "micro beer" or make their own cheese- through the appropriate departments- and package it for holiday fund raising.

McNeese speakers bureau

McNeese spotlight-in paper(s)-all area papers-and on KPLC

Meaningful campus jobs for our students

Merge all donor names and information into one donor base to increase fundraising reach and improve donor research

Merge alumni and foundation databases

More accessibility to McNeese items

More assistance for research services; particularly with how the money is spent and keeping track of that-accountability; currently many mistakes made and needs to be streamlined better

More beautification of student centers

More campus events during non-school hours would provide a fuller college experience for students

More diversity among faculty and more PhD's. We also need to also decide if we are branding ourselves as a teaching school or a research school. Our tenure requirements make this confusing.

More electronic-online--communication with Alumni

More facility involvement

More forums like this for students

More interactive with other cities

More leadership and advising in the CALL program. Lower prices of clothing in the book store.

More leeway in faculty merit to consider attention to students and for developing programs for them

More on-campus employee benefits (food, parking, health services); coupons to be used around town

More opportunities for Greek Housing

More places to get coffee on campus

More recognition to staff and classified workers who impact student success

More regular maintenance of classroom technical equipment; be sure it is going to work

More research collaboration with other universities

More retail products available everywhere

More signage on campus; on buildings, in buildings, etc

More Sororities

More summer teaching pay for faculty

More time for faculty to improve, less load

More tutors for math and English

More uniformity in treating students at all levels

More visitor parking

Move registration out of Smith Hall

Moving the "4th" floor for better visibility

MSU staff, administrators need to show up more frequently to build relationships and lend their community resources to the more under-developed areas of SWLA

National championship (any sport)

National scholar speaker program

Need a local access channel and put classes on television

Need a major shake-up in thinking of what McNeese is going to do to survive. Right now, the patient is on life support. Neither of us are happy about being so critical of our alma mater, but things need to change quickly.

Need an extra day for grading finals

Need designated area for big visitor groups to park

Need emergency lighting system

Need lights on walkway from band hall to auditorium (outside)

Need more maintenance (to facilities and lawns) esp around areas where public comes in

On-site daycare for faculty and students; early Childhood could use it as a teaching lab

Open courseware

Open Rec center earlier than noon

Orienting the faculty and staff as to how important it is to make transferring easier

Outreach programs (satellite classes)

Outsourcing possibilities

Paint the town blue and gold--organize former cheerleaders to get the LC community active throughout the sports seasons

Parking

Parking

Parking

Parking lot signage

Parking on raised structure over the campus bayou

Parking passes for football games

Parking slots sold by selling names to donors (Lot A)

Parking--buy lot across from Kmart

Partnerships with foreign universities

Partnerships with local businesses

Path to citizenship for international students

Pedestrian overpasses in several locations

Permanent billboards on the approaches into SWLA: I-10, 165, 27, 171. "McNEESE - Excellence With a Personal Touch." Drop the "State" for the official name. Work with the City of Lake Charles to incorporate the logo of McNeese into the new Ryan St. Streetscape. Promote, Promote, Promote. I know there is a budget crunch, however, McNeese needs to market itself.

Person should always answer phone in registrar office

Petition the city to extend the name Univeristy Drive to cover Ryan St. to Sale Road. It makes sense to have the university on University Drive. Also, Ryan Street High would not make sense anymore.

Place to live for international students between terms

Plant flowers

Post office/mail delivery to departments/pick up

Pre-architecture program

Preserving the right to worship and support of religious studies.

Produce graduates who are in-demand by employers

Projects of study for multiple disciplines

Promethean boards-use in more places than just in education

Promote our relationship with Sowela; we are supportive of each other; sell that out to the community

Promoting McNeese should be done in cutting edge vs. Publisher, etc.

Promoting student initiatives to the President's executive office

Provide another assistant to research services

Provide job placement assistance.

Provide opportunities for youth (capturing students when they are young)

Publicizing good things about the faculty (from both traditional and non-traditional students)

Purple buildings

Put a gate on Lot A

Put in place a non-smoking environment. Not only will it help with numerous health problems associated with smoking, it would be more cost-effective for insurance expenses.

Put more people to work on website and give faculty-staff training

Putting on our best face all the time

Raffle a reserve parking spot

Recognition for years of service

Recruit the right people

Reexamination of course offerings

Refresh paper products in the bathroom

Refresh the painting of the parking lots to better designate parking areas

Require at least a minimum dress code for employees; no flip flops, no tank tops, no shorts, etc. during working hours. It is not very professional.

Reroute the Ryan St. traffic down Common St. to build a better campus; secure campus; safety

Restructure MATH 113 to decrease the fail rate

Restructure student fees to allow more flexibility with use of fees

Review all student fees for appropriateness

Roger Miller's Write-on column; pen in his fist

Safer street crossings

Scholarships and fee waivers for part-time students

Secure faculty parking

SEED center gives you a foray to have a lot of business activity on campus

Sell tobacco and distinct designation of smoking zones

Separate the Athletic Foundation from the McNeese Foundation

Service learning

Shared vision to be undeniably the best university in LA

Show more appreciation for classified and staff employees

Shuttle bus service from football stadium lot to campus

Signage on campus

Six slots for 15 minute parking by Smith hall has helped a lot.

Size 10 envelope size bragging sheet - updated every 2 months

Someone mentioned scholarships...University of Alabama at Birmingham has a link on their website with all possible scholarships, why they were founded and by whom, who would qualify, etc. This would be a great asset in my opinion.

Sporting venue centralized on-campus

Spread too thin across the board

State of the art tech classroom for computer science program

Stressing feel good stories

Strong student involvement on campus

Stronger appeal to non-alumni to get them involved - the community as a whole

Student access to technology--ID access to rooms

Student chapter of AFP

Student exit interviews-surveys for gaining information about ways to improve

Student involvement in faculty retreats

Student resource room

Students should be treated well

Study abroad

Support all activities that bring citizens on campus

Take advantage of fun-loving quality of our local people and blend it into a passion for excellence

Take the "I Am McNeese' campaign a step further by picking a project that staff/faculty/student workers could give monetary donations that would equal up to one day's salary. They may could receive a blue t-shirt with the 'I Am McNeese' logo that would signify their participation in the project. This could work somewhat like the brick campaign for the entrance plaza.

Take the bugs out of the light fixtures

Tastefully landscape in front of the auditorium to increase parking

Teach every student in every major a little about what it takes for a business to be profitable (improves their job skills)

Teach faculty members to erase the blackboard after class

Teach more critical thinking and true emphasis in writing

Teach the metric system

Teaching responsible journalism

Teaching students that there are multiple ways of looking at issues

Team travel; cards that can track all expenses

Tear every building down and rebuild with southern architecture

Technology equipment needs to be adequate and functioning properly and maintained regularly

Technology, lunch money, dorms

Temperature control in SFAA on Sundays to protect pianos and other instruments

The improvements to the campus and student housing since Rita were great improvements and should be expanded as possible. The campus is looking so much better. We think the band program has shown great improvement in the last two or three years and hope that continues. The recent fieldhouse improvement has added a great deal of status to the imagine. All of these improvements will pay off in additional enrollment and a better image.

The Mass Communications department certainly needs to be improved (needs a new professor, needs new production equipment, and more). It does NOT need to be overlooked or neglected. These students are an important product of the university and they matter.

The McNeese MCOM department desperately needs another professor to help out.

There's not a good handicapped parking for this building (SFAA)-designating a faculty spot for that would not be a good solution, but a better spot should be found

Thermostats in all rooms

Ticket on rainy days

Timing our hiring better (faculty in particular)

Train all faculty to at least cursorily recognize learning styles and disabilities and work more effectively with students

Trash cans for new field house in front lobby. Correct paper towels for all restrooms in field house

Travel support for faculty to attend-participate in conferences

Travel van with big logo for golf teams

Treat each college as a strategic business unit and create profit-sharing based on performance standards designed to reach university goals; give each college autonomy to reach goals

Tuition should return to less that $100 per full time semester. Big dollars keep out students that would pay more taxes if they had more education.

Two level bookstore

University to establish itself for an annual symposium on ______; create a national academic presence

Updating our desks in classrooms

Upgrade cameras in the art department

Upgrade of key facilities

Up-to-date equipment

Use social media such as Facebook

Use students to do custodial work

Using the academy of management resources to do that annual symposium

Visa card with McNeese logo

Visibility of campus

Visitors parking that could raise money such as LSU, purchase so many minutes of the hour

Warm, fuzzy, feel good stories rather than just facts

We can't compete with LSU so we should accept it

We need more space

Web-based classes

Whiteboards that don't hang over blackboards

Wide variety of night classes

Work as hard as you can and make the students work even harder to learn subjects, and learn to learn. Streamline and optimize the cirriculum.

Work on the website; some things hard to find; should be able to find someone's phone number easily; or email; calendar for year; update for changes in a timely manner; old policies still listed